Chethan Pandarinath, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has made the shortlist of finalists in the running for…
Chemical manufacturers consume a massive amount of energy each year separating and refining feedstocks to make a wide variety of products including gasoline, plastics and food.
In a bid to reduce the amount…
“In an era of U.S. energy abundance, the persistently high energy bills paid by low-income households is troubling.” So begins the abstract to a new paper authored by Brook Byers Professor Marylin Brown and…
Peanut growers could someday identify emerging threats such as drought, pests or disease by testing a plant’s “chemical breath.”
From dawn to dusk, peanut plants emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs)…
This summer, Georgia Tech’s competitive robotics organization, RoboJackets, participated in the 27th annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. The focus of the…
According to Greek mythology, Icarus’ demise came from flying too close to the sun. While Team Icarus, Georgia Tech’s elite drone racing team, won’t be flying near the sun they do…
Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. Swarms of these “micro-bristle-bots” might work…
Anna Romanov and Julia Woodall, undergraduate students in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, will probably never leave the Earth’s orbit. But they each…
Each year the Smart 50 Awards, in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite,…
Project Safe, located in Athens, Georgia, started as an informal network of safe homes in the 1970s when volunteers opened their homes to victims of domestic…
Women continue to be disproportionally affected by HIV around the world, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where three in four new HIV infections are among young girls. For women seeking care in developing…
Paralyzed people moving their limbs or operating prosthetic devices by having machines decipher the electrical impulses in their nervous systems: it’s an appealing vision, and one that is getting closer. Right…
On January 30, Elizabeth Mynatt, distinguished professor and executive director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech, co-organized and presented at a U.S. congressional briefing on intelligent…
The Georgia Institute of Technology and its partners are excited to announce the launch of the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge (“Georgia Smart”), open to all communities in Georgia. Local Georgia governments of…
For a second time, Georgia Tech and the Georgia Municipal Association hosted the Georgia Mayors' Leadership Forum for Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation. While the first forum in November focused on understanding…
In August 2014, Emory University Hospital received national and international attention when it became the first hospital in the United States to treat a patient with Ebola virus disease. Dr. Kent Brantly, a medical…
When all of her classmates graduated from their Arts magnet high school in Baltimore and were moving on to study art on college campuses across the country, multi-talented Emily Madsen decided to do things a bit…
The field of sports data analytics has been around for 15 years, most notably for capturing and examining player data in baseball. The Oakland Athletics are considered the first professional sports team to use data…
More than 80,000 people are expected to visit downtown Atlanta this Labor Day weekend, August 30 - September 3, for Dragon Con 2018. The event is the largest multi-media and pop culture convention focused on science…
On Thursday, September 6th, 2018, Georgia Smart hosted over 85+ local government representatives, academic researchers, and industry representatives at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center for their…
